A club is the parent for your teams in LIGR Live. Teams you add to a club use its logo, colours and home venue by default. This saves time when one organisation runs several teams. This article shows you how to create a club and set it up so it looks right on every graphic.
Before you start
Create the club's home venue first. The usual setup order is Competition, Venue, Club and Team, then Match. You can also create a venue from inside the club form if you skipped this step.
Have the club logo ready as an image with a transparent background and no empty space around the edges.
Know the club's main colours, so your graphics match what fans expect to see.
Create a club
Go to Assets and open Clubs and Teams.
Click Create a Club or Team (the red button in the top right corner), then choose Create a Club from the menu.
Club Name: enter the club's name as you want it to appear in LIGR, for example Harbour City. This is the name you will see in your lists and when you work with the club's teams.
Home Venue: pick the venue you just created, for example LIGR Demo Stadium. Teams in this club use this venue by default. If the venue does not exist yet, click Create New Venue.
Graphics Display Names: fill in the Full Name, Medium Name and Short Name. Graphics have different amounts of space, so LIGR uses the version that fits. For example, Harbour City Football Club, Harbour City and HCF. A small graphic such as a scorebug suits the short name, while larger graphics can show the full name.
Club colours: click the colour palette to set the Primary and Secondary colours. Then set the Primary Text and Secondary Text colours. Each text colour sits on top of its matching background colour, so choose one that is easy to read against it.
Club logo: click the upload button and choose your logo. Once it uploads, you can crop the image, remove the background automatically or manually, and zoom as needed. Click Save when it looks right.
Click Create Club. You can add teams to the club straight away, or click Skip to do it later.
Edit the club's settings
You can update a club at any time. Open the club from Clubs and Teams to see its settings. From here you can change the name, home venue, graphics display names, logo and colours.
Changes you make to the club apply to all of its teams, unless a team has been customised with its own settings.
Kits
The club's settings also hold its kits. Kits store the colours for the home, away and alternate kits. These kit colours show in the Control Room and on your graphics, so set them to match what the team actually wears. This helps viewers connect the graphics on screen with the players on the field, especially when a team plays in its away or alternate kit.
How teams use the club's details
Teams you create under a club inherit its logo, colours and venue by default. You do not need to enter them again for each team.
If one team needs something different, such as its own venue, you can customise that team. Its custom settings then take priority over the club's settings.
Tips and common mistakes
Logo looks small on graphics: the image probably has empty space around it. Crop it tight to the edges of the logo before you save.
White or coloured box behind the logo: the background is not transparent. Use the background removal option or upload a transparent version.
Hard to read names: check the text colours against the primary and secondary colours. Light text on a light colour, or dark on dark, is hard to read on air.
Names cut off: keep the short name brief, such as a three letter code like HCF or RVR, and make sure the medium name is shorter than the full name.
Duplicate clubs: search Clubs and Teams before you create a club, so you do not end up with two versions of the same club.